On Friday, a federal jury awarded $17 million to Jacques Rivera, a former inmate who says he was framed for a murder he didn’t commit. The long-time detainee accused three Chicago police detectives of coercing a 12-year old boy into fingering him as the killer in a crime with no other witnesses. One of the
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A former principal at La Canada Unified School District just got the okay from a judge to take her lawsuit to trial. In her lawsuit, the former principal, Christine Castillo, alleges she was the “subject of a backlash after she filed an internal complaint about pregnancy discrimination.”
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A former University of Wisconsin student convicted of stalking and raping three women was sentenced to three years in prison. Alec Cook, sentenced Thursday, June 21st, pled guilty in February to five felonies—three counts of third-degree sexual assault and instances of suffocation and strangulation. Cook was also charged with stalking. FOX2NOW recounts how Cook was
On Monday, the Supreme Court announced it won’t interfere in a South Dakota jury’s decision to execute Charles Rhines. Rhines, convicted of murder, is homosexual—a fact his peers purportedly took to mean he’d enjoy life behind bars. During deliberations leading up to Rhines’ verdict, jurors discussed the killer’s sexuality. The man’s preference for other men
A State Department report criticized the practice of separating migrant children from their parents, saying kids in detention facilities face a higher risk of psychological trauma. The finding, reports POLITICO, was included in the agency’s Trafficking in Persons Report, released Thursday. It follows moves by the administration and courts to curb the practice, including a
The city of Phoenix recently agreed to pay $10 million to settle a lawsuit related to a 2016 accident that resulted in a 3-year-old girl being critically injured. Back on August 16, 2016, Vanessa Andrade was “run over by a police cruiser when she walked across the street after buying ice cream.” Of the $10 million settlement, $7.2 million will be paid by the city and another $2.8 million will be covered by the city’s insurance policy. So what happened? How did a police cruiser hit a child walking in the street?